Opinion: Favorite video card?

[Martin Stone]

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> Martin Stone wrote:
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> |> Martin Stone wrote:
> |> | Hi,
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> |> | I've had the same troubles everyone else has with NVidia and Matrox
> |> | Linux "drivers" - mine are exacerbated because I'm SMP and
> |> multi-head on
> |> | most of my machines.  So I was wondering, does anyone have a favorite
> |> | video card/vendor for Linux?  What I'd really love to have is a card
> |> | that can run dualhead driving 2 monitors at 1600x1200, DVI rather than
> |> | analog.
> |> |
> |> | Cheers,
> |> | Martin
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> |> What's been your problem with nVidia cards?
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> | I've got the Quadro 200 and I've been freezing randomly when running
> | SMP... dual 3.2 GHz Xeon here... I don't have the problem when I init 3,
> | or when I run uniprocessor, so I just assume it's the video stuff.  I'd
> | investigate more, but it's hard when you're totally frozen in X :-\
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> Hmm, dual Xeons and an SMP kernel... maybe HT stuff is coming into play?

Nope, HT is off, appending "acpi=off apm=off nohlt", you know, the usual ;-)